LAS VEGAS — LD Robert Pick is using Avolites’ Tiger Touch II console for a new version of Raiding the Rock Vault, which opened March 11 for a six-month run at Vinyl, located inside the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. Production designer/programmer LD Paul Dexter specified the console, supplied by Toucan Productions of Oklahoma City.
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LAS VEGAS — For-A will feature Fujitsu’s new IP-HE950 encoder/decoder units at the 2017 NAB show, set for Las Vegas from April 24-27. The IP-HE950 is designed to support real-time 4K, HD and SD video transmission. The units will be featured at For-A’s NAB booth, #C5117.
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FRANKFURT, Germany – MDG will be featuring new products at Hall 3.0, Stand E19 at Prolight+Sound April 4-7, including a new IP55 haze generator, the ATMe WPE. MDG will also show off new accessories including their Round Floor Pocket, RFP 239, updated controller, RFP-CB, plus MDG’s D-Verter 239.
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MONCTON, NB, Canada — For Canadian country rockers Blue Rodeo, who have been touring in support of their 2016 1000 Arms album release, LD Al Paquette included Robe Spiiders and PATT 2013s in the rig. Ontario-based Apex Sound & Light supplied the gear.
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HOBART, Australia — For a production of the Broadway musical, Wicked, that ran Jan. 27-Feb. 11 at the Theatre Royal in Hobart on the island of Tasmania, Gareth Kays of GK Productions, serving as LD and lighting provided, used Philips Showline SL BEAM 300fx, LEDSPOT 300, and Selecon PLfresnel1 MKII fixtures to brighten and animate key moments in the show.
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Rosco’s Image Spot LED gobo projector uses a 40W LED array and the option of 190, 250 or 300 beam optics. Indoor (IP40) and outdoor (IP65) versions are available.
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LONDON — To meet the production demands of ‘Strictly Come Dancing,’ the crew has been using a network of data control that connects two consoles and a media server to the lighting and video elements on the set. The setup also includes ProPlex’s IQ Two 1616 (pictured here), according to Mark Newell, the show’s lighting gaffer and chief systems tech, helping the crew to execute a lighting design by Mark Kenyon.
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OWATONNA, MN—Wenger Corporation continues to build on the tradition of the Wenger and J.R. Clancy brands in performing arts by investing in their products, services and team members. They have created the Performing Arts Specialist Group, which will be led by Mike Murphy, General Manger of Performing Arts, and will also nclude Damon Atwood and Jeff Jones. The company also hired Jim Crooks as Lighting Solutions Integrator.
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LOS ANGELES — At the fifth annual Riot LA Comedy Festival, held in downtown Los Angeles from Jan. 19-22, LDs Joshua Cuellar and Sohail Najafi of the Najafi Design Group made use of Chauvet Professional COLORado 1 Solo fixtures supplied by 4Wall LA to light the festival grounds.
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FRANKFURT, Germany – Avolites will launch two software updates and showcase its new developments in lighting and video integration at this year’s Prolight + Sound 2017 in Frankfurt. Highlights include the company’s Ai v10 media server software, developed through real-world testing, and the latest Titan update, v10.1, with a plethora of end user-centric new features. Avolites will be in Hall 3 Level 0 Stand E80 throughout the four-day event.
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BOGOTA – Czech moving light manufacturer Robe named AV Com as its new Colombian distributor. Pictured here, in Bogota Old Town, are Robe’s Latin America Sales Regional Sales Manager Guillermo Traverso (center) flanked by Juan Camilo Triana, Sales Manager for AV Com on the left, and Camilo Aranguren, CEO of AV Com on the right.
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MADRID — Riedel Communications’ MediorNet real-time network is a critical behind-the-scenes player for the fifth season of the Spanish reality show “Gran Hermano VIP” (“Big Brother VIP”).
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